The Jewish Council for Education in Research says at least two women in
separate states were push polled, or asked questions intended to influence
voters while pretending to take a poll, on Sunday afternoon from a caller
who said he was from Research Strategies.

Joelna Marcus says she became uncomfortable when the caller asked if she was
Jewish, whether she was Orthodox and how often she attends synagogue.

The caller then asked if Marcus would be influenced if she learned that
Obama had donated money to the Palestine Liberation Organization. The caller
also asked how she would vote if she learned that someone on the Illinois
senator's staff had close ties to Palestine.

Marcus, a 71-year-old former college professor, said she was furious.

"I said you're not polling me. This is un-American. This is unacceptable,"
said Marcus, a snowbird who lives in New Jersey and has a house in Key West.
"And then this is the scary part. He said if you had not said that you were
Jewish, you would have been disqualified."

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